February 26, 2013

Our friends over in Autodesk Consulting have been busy helping the Corps create Revit Platform Templates to help increase adoption and improve delivery quality and consistency. I thought it would be great to share this with our readers.

Links to the templates are available from the Autodesk Building Owners page. You can access them by clicking on that link and going down to bottom of the page.

Here is a little more detail on what this is all about:

The Process

The USACE and Autodesk
collaborated to create a BIM Template Team consisting of seasoned CAD/BIM
Managers with a working knowledge of Revit. Each member has specific
disciplinary strengths and shared a draft working district specific Revit
template with the team. Each of the district’s templates were critiqued and
tested by the group, and by teams going through BIM Implementations. The
feedback was debated and the group decided on revisions and enhancements that
supported the intent, purpose and general needs of the USACE.

The Payoff

The upfront time and
effort required to set up, configure, and coordinate a Revit project and
environment, be can be minimized significantly by deploying a Revit template
file (.rte). Revit templates will increase graphic and non graphic consistency
across teams, districts and divisions. Templates will provide a team with a
common starting point and will improve the overall USACE product and brand.